Justin Timberlake just now apologizing for this shit nearly 20 years later because of the combo of the Super Bowl, which social media has turned into Janet Jackson Appreciation Day since JT performed the halftime show a few years back and that Britney Spears doc dropping isn't going to sit right with the vast majority of people who already dislike him for how he handled those 2 events. The wild shit though is though there's a good chance that regardless of what he said or didn't say when the Janet Jackson incident happened the former head of CBS Les Moonves went and declared war on her and admittedly went out of his way to blackball Janet Jackson the way she was in the years after that. Justin Timberlake was big, but he wasn't THAT big in 2002 to be able to completely derail her career. He's definitely to blame for a good portion of it, but people have basically let Les Moonves slide when he's the person behind the majority of what happened to Janet Jackson after that.